94 Obituary —Ur. J. Armstrong—Prof. J. S. Newberry. 
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JAMES ARMSTRONG, FORMERLY OF GLASGOW. 
Born January 1, 1832. Disp Noy. 28TH, 1892. 
JAMES ARMSTRONG was born at Leith, on the Firth of Forth, 
Scotland, but was educated at a Normal School in Glasgow, where, 
at an early age, he was sent into a business office. He had from 
his youth a keen desire for study, and joined an evening class at 
Anderson’s College, Glasgow, under Dr. Taylor, professor of Natural 
History. Soon afterwards he, with a few of his colleagues, founded 
the now well-known Glasgow Geological Society, of which he was for 
many years its Recording and Corresponding Secretary, and Editor 
of its Transactions. Mr. Armstrong was an ardent Collector of 
fossils, especially those of the Carboniferous rocks, and he was 
one of the best authorities upon the fossils of this formation in 
the West of Scotland. 
In conjunction with Mr. John Young, F.G.S., of the Hunterian 
Museum, Mr. Amstrong published in 1871, a “Catalogue of the 
Carboniferous fossils of the West of Scotland,” printed by the 
Geological Society of Glasgow. Later (in 1876), with the assist- 
ance of John Young and David Robertson, F.G.S., and Professor 
J. Young, M.D., these geologists brought out an admirable little 
work, being a “Catalogue of the Western Scottish Fossils,” with 
figures of the Moffat Graptolites by Prof. Lapworth, and an 
admirable Bibliography, printed and published at the expense of 
the Local Executive Committee of the British Association for the 
Glasgow Meeting, 1876. Mr. Armstrong’s private collection was 
one of the best illustrations of the paleontology of the Glasgow 
area, and is now preserved in the Museum of Science and Art, 
Edinburgh, while a small part is in the Cabinet of Dr. Hunter, 
of Carluke, Lanarkshire. Mr. Amstrong was a Member of the 
Glasgow Philosophical Society, of the Edinburgh Geological 
Society, &. He died at Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., on the 
28th November, 1892. 
PROFESSOR JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY, M.D., 
FOR. MEMB. GEOL. SOC. LOND., 
Born DecremBer 22, 1822. Diep DecemBer 7, 1892. 
Proressor J. 8. Newpurry, of Columbia College, New York, 
whose death we regret to have to record, was born seventy years 
ago at New Windsor, Connecticut, and removed early in life to 
Cuyahoga Falls City, in Ohio. He was educated for the medical 
profession, and graduated in 1846 at the Western Reserve College, 
and afterwards at Cleveland Medical College in 1848. He travelled 
in Europe in 1849-50, and entered upon private practice as a 
physician at Cleveland, Ohio, in the year following. 
Newberry was imbued from childhood with a taste for Natural 
